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Today the University of Miami (UM) announced that their new Triton supercomputer is installed and helping their researchers explore new frontiers of science. The new supercomputer will be UM’s first GPU-accelerated HPC system, representing a completely new approach to computational and data science for the university’s campuses. Built using IBM Power Systems AC922 servers, the new HPC system was designed to maximize data movement between the IBM POWER9 CPU and attached accelerators like GPUs.The post IBM Deploys Triton AI Supercomputer at University of Miami appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Cray a new, open and extensible software platform to address the growing need for supercomputing across government and private industries. As advanced simulation, artificial intelligence (AI) and digital transformation create new, data intensive workloads, the need for performance at scale is growing rapidly. Recognizing the challenges presented by the exascale era, Cray’s software fuses supercomputing performance and capability with the modularity, composability and ease-of-use of cloud computing.The post Cray Shasta Software to Power Exascale Era appeared first on insideHPC.

Lance Wilson from Monash University gave this talk at the Singularity User Group. "The repository for the build files is public and is run in the same way as a software development project. In addition to the build files being public, the repository is linked to singularity hub, such that the containers are easily available to anyone in the characterisation research community."The post Video: Providing a National Software Repository for Interactive HPC appeared first on insideHPC.

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team takes a close look at the history of High Performance Interconnects, recent news, and how the market is changing profoundly. "The departure of Intel from this segment is good news for some, and it remains to be seen what strategy Intel will adopt for the HPC market."The post Podcast: Who will benefit from Intel dropping Omni-Path? appeared first on insideHPC.

Today the Department of Energy announced that Cray will build the NNSA’s first exascale supercomputer, “El Capitan.” To be hosted at LLNL, El Capitan will have a peak performance of more than 1.5 exaflops and an anticipated delivery in late 2022. El Capitan will be DOE’s third exascale-class supercomputer, following Argonne National Laboratory’s “Aurora” and Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s “Frontier” system. All three DOE exascale supercomputers will be built by Cray utilizing their Shasta architecture, Slingshot interconnect and new software platform.The post Cray to Build El Capitan Exascale Supercomputer at LLNL appeared first on insideHPC.

One Stop Systems just unveiled its comprehensive portfolio of PCIe Gen 4 expansion building blocks supporting servers based on the new AMD EPYC 7002 processor. "We are pleased to work with AMD to lead the market transition to PCIe Gen 4 by delivering flexible and scalable expansion platforms complementary to AMD EPYC 7002 based servers.”The post OSS Steps Up with AMD EPYC 7002 Series Processor for ‘AI on the Fly’ appeared first on insideHPC.

In this podcast from the Army Research Laboratory, lab director Dr. Phil Perconti and computer scientist Ross Adelman discuss future of supercomputing and sensors. "Imagine having a complete understanding of what's inside a building without having to step inside. That's the kind of thing that scientists and engineers at the U.S. Army CCDC Research Laboratory are working on using research into low-frequency imaging sensors and supercomputers."The post Podcast: Supercomputing and Sensors at ARL appeared first on insideHPC.

The HPC User Forum Steering Committee and Hyperion Research invite interested HPC community members to reserve a seat at one or both HPC User Forum meetings that will take place during the same week at CSCS (the Swiss National Supercomputing Center, Lugano) and EPCC/University of Edinburgh in October. The meetings will begin and end at midday, to make same-day travel easier. Registration and food/refreshments are free, but space is strictly limited. Seats will be assigned on a first-come, first-served basis. We look forward to seeing you in October.The post Registration Opens for HPC User Forums in Switzerland and Scotland appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Mellanox announced that the company's InfiniBand ConnectX smart adapter solutions are optimized to provide breakthrough performance and scalability for the new AMD EPYC 7002 Series processor-based compute and storage infrastructures. "The combination of Mellanox 25, 50, 100 and 200 Gigabit Ethernet and HDR 200 Gigabit InfiniBand adapters, and PCI Express 4.0 support in the second-generation AMD EPYC processor, provides high-performance computing, artificial intelligence, cloud and enterprise data centers the high data bandwidth they need for the most compute and storage demanding applications.”The post Mellanox to Maximize Performance on AMD EPYC 7002 Processors appeared first on insideHPC.

This course addresses scientists with a working knowledge of NumPy who wish to explore the productivity gains made possible by Python for HPC. "We will show how Python can be used on parallel architectures and how to optimize critical parts of the kernel using various tools. The following topics will be covered: - Interactive parallel programming with IPython - Profiling and optimization - High-performance NumPy - Just-in-time compilation with Numba - Distributed-memory parallel programming with Python and MPI - Bindings to other programming languages and HPC libraries - Interfaces to GPUs."The post Video: High-Performance Computing with Python – Reducing Bottlenecks appeared first on insideHPC.

HPE announced today that it shattered 37 world records, establishing undisputed performance and efficiency leadership with the new HPE ProLiant DL325 and HPE ProLiant DL385 servers equipped with the 2nd Gen AMD EPYC processor. "Eclipsing previous virtualization performance records by as much as 321 percent and power efficiency records by 28 percent, the new HPE ProLiant DL325 and HPE ProLiant DL385 servers deliver results that redefine value and economics across virtualization, cloud, enterprise infrastructure and data-intensive workloads."The post HPE ProLiant Sets 37 World Record Performance with 2nd Gen AMD EPYC Processors appeared first on insideHPC.

The Jülich supercomputing Centre in Germany is seeking a Postdoctoral scholar position in the field of terrestrial systems modeling. "You will setup and perform large scale terrestrial systems simulations over the European continent based on novel climate change scenarios and story lines. The simulation results will be analyzed using advanced data analytics technologies to inform various sectors in order to formulate adaptation strategies."The post Job of the Week: Postdoctoral scholar position for terrestrial systems modeling at Jülich Supercomputing Centre appeared first on insideHPC.

Today TYAN launched 2nd Gen AMD EPYC Processor-based server platforms to deliver a new level of performance to power the modern datacenter. "TYAN’s first-wave offerings include a 2U single-socket Transport SX TS65-B8036 server and the single-socket Tomcat SX S8036 server motherboard. Powered by AMD EPYC 7002 Series Processors, both platforms boost performance for the modern datacenter by leveraging PCIe 4.0 and increased memory speed. The TS65-S8036 supports 16 DDR4-3200 DIMM slots, 12 front-access hot-swap 3.5” and 2 rear-access hot-swap 2.5” drives."The post TYAN Launches Servers with AMD EPYC 7002 Series Processors appeared first on insideHPC.

Today PSSC Labs launched the CyberRax Data Flow Pipeline for streaming analytics on the edge. The CyberRax DataFlow Pipeline platform is designed in conjunction with Cloudera to deliver an on-premise, turnkey environment for all your data streaming needs. Certified compatible with Cloudera Dataflow (and Apache NiFi), CyberRax DataFlow Pipeline provides high-speed data ingestion, edge data collection, and IoT scale streaming data processing…in real time.The post Streaming Analytics at the Edge With CyberRax Data Flow Pipeline appeared first on insideHPC.

Today One Stop Systems announced a five-year sole source agreement valued at $36 million to provide flash storage arrays to a prime contractor for the U.S. Navy. The systems will be used within state-of-the-art Navy surveillance aircraft deployed worldwide. "Under the agreement, OSS will supply full mil-spec flash storage systems that include removable canisters, allowing collected data to be removed from the aircraft and transferred to ground stations. The systems store real-time data collected from advanced airborne sensors (AAS), including radar and other sensors. The contract includes airborne and ground systems, spare canisters and support services."The post OSS Awarded $36 Million Contract to Provide Flash Storage Arrays for Military Radar Application appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Cray announced that their first Shasta supercomputing system for operational weather forecasting and meteorology will be acquired by the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center in partnership with Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The powerful high-performance computing capabilities of the new system, named HPC11, will enable higher fidelity weather forecasts for U.S. Air Force and Army operations worldwide. The contract is valued at $25 million.The post Cray Shasta Supercomputer to power weather forecasting for U.S. Air Force appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Cray announced that the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) has selected two Cray CS500 systems for its High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP) annual technology procurement known as TI-18. The Army Research Lab (ARL) and the U.S. Army Engineering and Research Development Center (ERDC) will each deploy a Cray CS500 to help serve the U.S. through accelerated research in science and technology. The two contracts are valued at more than $46M and the CS500 systems are expected to be delivered to ARL and ERDC in the fourth quarter of 2019.The post AMD to Power Two Cray CS500 Systems at Army Research Centers appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Lenovo introduced the Lenovo ThinkSystem SR635 and SR655 server platforms, two of the industry’s most powerful single-socket servers. "Based on next-generation AMD EPYC 7002 Series processors, Lenovo’s new ThinkSystem SR635 and SR655 server platforms not only allow customers to run more workloads on fewer servers, but also offer up to 73 percent savings on potential software licensing, empowering users to accelerate emerging workloads more efficiently."The post Lenovo Launches Single Socket Servers with AMD EPYC 7002 Series appeared first on insideHPC.

In many AI applications, transporting large amounts of data back to a remote datacenter is impractical and undesirable. With AI on the Fly, the entire AI workflow resides at the edge at the data source. One Stop Systems's Tim Miller explores how high performance scalable data acquisition is a fundamental and enabling component of this emerging new paradigm.The post High Speed Data Capture for AI on the Fly Edge Applications appeared first on insideHPC.

Today GigaIO introduced the FabreX implementation of Non-Volatile Memory Express over Fabrics (NVMe-oF) architecture, streamlining NVMe network communication and large-scale storage sharing with industry-leading low latency and high-bandwidth features. "With FabreX and NVMe-oF, storage located in a server, directly attached to a server and attached across a network delivers identical performance, allowing customers to choose their preferred storage architectures and experience the same quality of service to meet desired service level objectives."The post GigaIO Extends Next-Generation Network to Storage Systems appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Nortek Air Solutions’ ServerCool division that its coolant distribution unit (CDU) technology is cooling dozens of the world’s most powerful and energy efficient supercomputers, according to the 2019 TOP500 and Green500 lists announced recently at the ISC 2019 in Frankfurt. "The TOP500 proves that hardware manufacturers are pushing their equipment’s performance envelope at the chip level, however ServerCool will keep pace with that growth by continuing to develop higher cooling and flow capacities with smaller footprints,” said Stuart Smith, global sales manager, ServerCool div. of Nortek Air Solutions.The post ServerCool CDUs are Cooling 10-Percent of Top100 Supercomputers appeared first on insideHPC.

Today AMD rolled out the 2nd Generation AMD EPYC family of processors that deliver performance leadership across a broad number of enterprise, cloud and HPC workloads. 2nd Gen AMD EPYC processors feature up to 64 “Zen 2” cores in leading-edge 7nm process technology to deliver record-setting performance while helping reduce total cost of ownership (TCO) by up to 50% across numerous workloads.The post Now Shipping: Leadership Performance with new 2nd Generation AMD EPYC Processors appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Marvell announced an expansion of its revolutionary NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe-oF) portfolio. The breakthrough solutions include one powering the Toshiba Memory native NVMe-oF Ethernet solid state drive (SSD) with Marvell's NVMe-oF SSD converter controller, delivering the world's first direct-to-Ethernet SSD. The second is a landmark Marvell NVMe-oF Ethernet SSD controller, optimized to expedite SSD makers' time to market and drive broad data center adoption of Ethernet Bunch of Flash (EBOF) architectures.The post Marvell Reduces Power Consumption with NVMe-oF Ethernet SSD Technology appeared first on insideHPC.

In this special guest feature, Elizabeth Leake from the STEM-Trek Nonprofit reflects on inclusivity at the recent ISC 2019 conference in Frankfurt. "A favorable experience means that attendees are more likely to return. And they do; this year, 164 exhibitors and 3,573 attendees from all domains and 64 countries were there. Attendance has doubled since 2009 and grows at a comfortable pace each year."The post ISC High Performance: Fueling Innovation & Fostering Family for 33 Years appeared first on insideHPC.

The world’s fastest supercomputer is sharing data with its cooling plant, reducing energy consumption and cost. "OLCF and technology consulting company Providentia Worldwide recently collaborated to develop an intelligence system that combines real-time updates from the Summit supercomputer with local weather and operational data from its adjacent cooling plant, with the goal of optimizing Summit’s energy efficiency. The OLCF proposed the idea and provided facility data, and Providentia developed a scalable platform to integrate and analyze the data."The post Providentia Worldwide Builds Intelligence into Summit Supercomputer Cooling appeared first on insideHPC.

SIGHPC, in collaboration with Intel, has announced the six recipients of the ACM SIGHPC/Intel Computational and Data Science Fellowships for 2019. The fellowships are highly competitive, and are awarded after a rigorous merit review. For the first time in the fellowship’s history, all of the recipients are women. The fellowship is funded by Intel and is presented each year at the annual SC conference.The post Announcing the 2019 ACM SIGHPC/Intel Computational and Data Science Fellowships appeared first on insideHPC.

How big is the move to HPC in the Cloud? "A recent report from Hyperion Research indicate that as much as 10 percent of HPC workloads are already in cloud and that 70 percent of HPC centers are running some jobs in public clouds. Do these reports of increasing HPC Cloud migration match what you readers are experiencing? There is one quick way to find out--by taking our HPC Cloud Survey."The post Moving HPC to the Cloud? Take our insideHPC Survey appeared first on insideHPC.

Raid Media Systems has become the latest partner to sign up to the Bright Computing Reseller Program. As a reseller, Raid Media Systems has chosen to partner with Bright Computing in order to provide its customers with an easy to use cluster management solution. The Reseller anticipates that Bright technology will allow its staff to spend less time on cluster management tasks and more time focusing on improving application performance and cluster utilization for its customers. "We are happy to partner with Bright to offer industry-proven cluster management software to our customer base," said Daniel Vogel, Systems Engineer at Raid Media Systems. "This ensures that our customers get the very best solutions for their needs.”The post Bright Reseller Raid Media Systems Targets German Supercomputing Market appeared first on insideHPC.

Professor Michela Taufer from the University of Tennessee has been selected to receive a 2019 IBM Faculty Award for $20,000 USD. This award is highly competitive and recognizes her leadership in High Performance Computing and its importance to the computing industry. "Dr. Taufer will lead work with IBM to bring the IBM Onsite Deep Learning Workshop on campus. As Deep learning and AI gain traction in scientific discovery, training EECS students in these disciplines will open tremendous opportunities for them in Tennessee and outside the state."The post Professor Michela Taufer to Receive 2019 IBM Faculty Award appeared first on insideHPC.

A new study led by a physicist at Berkeley Lab details how a quantum computing technique called “quantum annealing” can be used to solve problems relevant to fundamental questions in nuclear physics about the subatomic building blocks of all matter. As described in the journal Scientific Reports, it could also help answer other vexing questions in science and industry, too.The post Quantum Annealing could help solve fundamental questions in nuclear physics appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Xilinx launched the new Alveo U50 data center accelerator card, the industry’s first low profile adaptable accelerator with PCIe Gen 4 support. Designed for the datacenter, the Alveo U50 is uniquely designed to supercharge a broad range of critical compute, network and storage workloads, all on one reconfigurable platform. “We believe the combination of low-profile form-factor, HBM2 memory performance, and PCIe Gen 4 speed to interface with IBM Power processors will enable the OpenPOWER ecosystem to provide cutting edge adaptable acceleration solutions.”The post Xilinx Launches Alveo U50 FPGA Datacenter Accelerator Card appeared first on insideHPC.

Anderson Banihirwe from NCAR gave this talk at SciPy 2019. "This talk demonstrates how to use Dask and Jupyter on large high-performance computing (HPC) systems to scale and accelerate large interactive data analysis tasks -- effectively turning HPC systems into interactive big-data platforms. We will introduce dask-jobqueue which allows users to seamlessly deploy and scale dask on HPC clusters that use a variety of job queuing systems such as PBS, Slurm, SGE, and LSF. We will also introduce dask-mpi, a Python package that makes deploying Dask easy from within a distributed MPI environment."The post Interactive Supercomputing with Jupyter and DASK appeared first on insideHPC.

Today HPE announced it has acquired the business assets of MapR, whose data platform for artificial intelligence and analytics applications is powered by scale-out, multi-cloud and multi-protocol file system technology. This transaction includes MapR’s technology, intellectual property, and domain expertise in artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) and analytics data management.The post HPE Acquires MapR Business Assets appeared first on insideHPC.

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at the growing trend of liquid cooling in the datacenter. "The new VSC-4 system built by Lenovo checks in at #82 on the TOP500 list and is liquid cooled, leading to a debate on the future of cooling and various forms of liquid-cooling: direct contact, immersion, and phase change."The post Podcast: Is Our Future Liquid Cooled? appeared first on insideHPC.

HPE is now shipping HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen10 servers with the new Intel FPGA Programmable Acceleration Card D5005, the latest in a growing line of field programmable gate array-based, server-accelerator cards from Intel. "Compared to the Intel Programmable Acceleration Card with Intel Arria 10 GX FPGA, the Intel FPGA PAC D5005 accelerator card offers significantly more resources including three times the amount of programmable logic, as much as 32 GB of DDR4 memory (a 4x increase) and faster Ethernet ports (two 100GE ports versus one 40GE port)."The post HPE Speeds Gen10 Servers with Intel FPGA Programmable Acceleration Card D5005 appeared first on insideHPC.

Phison Electronics is showcasing its high performance PCIe Gen4 storage products this week at the Flash Memory Summit. "The Phison E16 provides industry leading performance, capacity and NVMe features required to build the PCIe Gen4 enabled data center of the future. Liqid is excited that the Phison E16 is now powering the fastest storage in the world, the LQD4500.”The post Phison Steps up with PCIe Gen4x4 NVMe SSD solutions appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Intel and Lenovo announced a multiyear collaboration focused on the rapidly growing opportunity in the convergence of HPC and AI to help accelerate solutions for the world’s most challenging problems. Building on the companies’ long-standing partnership in the data center, the multiyear global collaboration will accelerate the convergence of HPC and AI, creating solutions for organizations of all sizes.The post Lenovo and Intel Collaboration to Extend HPC and AI Leadership appeared first on insideHPC.

In this special guest feature, Bill Wagner from Bright Computing writes that the convergence of HPC & AI presents new challenges for containers, job scheduling, and system management. "But here’s the rub … traditional HPC applications run under the jurisdiction of an HPC workload manager like Slurm or PBS Pro, whereas machine learning applications are primarily run in containers under the jurisdiction of a container orchestration system, such as Kubernetes."The post The Convergence of HPC and AI appeared first on insideHPC.

Glenn Lockwood from NERSC gave this talk at the Samsung Forum. "In this talk, we will compare the storage and I/O requirements of large-scale HPC workloads with those of the cloud and show how HPC's unique requirements have led NERSC to deploy NVMe in the form of burst buffers and all-flash parallel file systems rather than block- and object-based storage. We will then explore how recent technological advances that target enterprise and cloud I/O workloads may also benefit HPC, and we will highlight a few remaining challenge areas in which innovation is required."The post Designing Future Flash Storage Systems for HPC and Beyond appeared first on insideHPC.

Today the Silicon Catalyst announced the admission of three early-stage companies into the semiconductor industry’s highly acclaimed incubation program. "It’s with great pleasure that we welcome these three, exciting early-stage companies into our incubator, as they are developing leading edge solutions spanning the edge computing, artificial intelligence and power management segments. Their innovative products are poised to significantly improve overall performance and cost-effectiveness across many industries and applications.”The post Silicon Catalyst Announces Three Newly Admitted Startups to Semiconductor Incubator appeared first on insideHPC.

Global Science & Technology is seeking an experienced HPC Science Programmer in our Job of the Week. "The successful candidate will work with a group of scientists and software developers at the Satellite Oceanography and Climatology Division (SOCD) under the NOAA Center for Satellite Applications and Research (STAR). The position is long term, contingent upon performance."The post Job of the Week: HPC Programmer at Global Science & Technology appeared first on insideHPC.

NCSA has announced a new collaboration to produce digital elevation models (DEM) of the entire Earth, among other geospatial research projects. "This is the beginning of building a long-term strategic relationship between NGA and the University of Illinois, centered on high-performance computing and data analysis. The Blue Waters collaboration is the first of what we anticipate will be many years of research collaborations between NGA and Illinois faculty as well as NCSA."The post NCSA to help build world’s most powerful geospatial system appeared first on insideHPC.

Today ​Nimbix​ announced their collaboration with the US Sailing Team (USST) as the “Official Compute Partner of the US Sailing Team.” For us, it is all about providing the team with fast access to high-performance cloud computing to support their supercomputing simulation needs. The team is using software to analyze high priority fluid-structure studies that will hopefully help the team stand atop the podium,” said Nimbix CEO, Steve Hebert.The post Nimbix HPC Cloud Powers US Sailing Team appeared first on insideHPC.

As an all-new parallel file system, DAOS will be a key component of the the upcoming Aurora supercomputer coming to Argonne National Laboratory in 2021. "DAOS is an open source software-defined scale-out object store that provides high bandwidth, low latency, and high I/O operations per second (IOPS) storage containers to HPC applications. It enables next-generation data-centric workflows that combine simulation, data analytics, and AI."The post DAOS: Scale-Out Software-Defined Storage for HPC/Big Data/AI Convergence appeared first on insideHPC.

Oregon State University’s College of Engineering is accelerating its work in artificial intelligence, robotics, driverless vehicles and other areas by acquiring six advanced NVIDIA systems that give the college some of the most powerful computing resources among universities worldwide. "The computing power we now possess will accelerate our research in artificial intelligence and machine learning, while exposing our computer science students to the most advanced technology available in higher education.”The post OSU Invests $2.6 million in AI Computing Resources appeared first on insideHPC.

XSEDE has selected five Campus Champions Fellows for the 2019-2020 academic year. These exceptional researchers will have the opportunity to work side-by-side with staff of the XSEDE project to solve real-world science and engineering projects. "The five Fellows selected for this year will work on projects spanning from hydrology gateways to undergraduate data science curriculum development under the overarching goal of increasing cyberinfrastructure expertise on campuses by including Campus Champions as partners in XSEDE's projects."The post XSEDE Campus Champions to Focus on Research Collaboration appeared first on insideHPC.

Mark Neubauer from the University of Illinois gave this talk at the Blue Waters Symposium. "In this talk, we present our work using deep learning techniques on the Blue Waters supercomputing to develop and optimize a novel method of identifying the decays of highly-boosted Higgs bosons produced at the LHC a signature of new particles and/or phenomena at the energy frontier of particle physics. We also discuss our ongoing work using Blue Waters to develop scalable cyberinfrastructure for sustainable and reproducible data analysis workflows through the NSF-funded IRIS-HEP Institute and SCAILFIN project."The post Deep Learning for Higgs Boson Identification and Searches for New Physics at the Large Hadron Collider appeared first on insideHPC.

The Defense Department is testing a Shipping Container Supercomputer. "The $12 million contract provides for a supercomputing system housed in a shipping container with on-board power conditioning and cooling, along with the corresponding hardware and software maintenance services. The “HPC in a Container” is designed to be deployable to the tactical edge and deployment opportunities to remote locations are currently being evaluated."The post Defense Department is testing a Shipping Container Supercomputer appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Sylabs announced the Generally Available Release of Singularity 3.3.0. As the premier Container platform for performance-sensitive workloads, this release of Singularity focused on quality and stability. "Given the frenetic pace of development, we saw this as an opportunity to double down on quality and stability. Three release candidates later, you can appreciate that the quality and stability objective has been achieved in spades. Kudos to the entire user, developer, and provider community for their collective and substantial efforts in reaching this milestone."The post Singularity 3.3.0 Goes GA appeared first on insideHPC.

Ivo Sbalzarini from TU Dresden gave this keynote presentation at ISC 2019. In his talk, Sbalzarini mainly discussed the rapidly growing importance and influence in the life sciences for scientific high-performance computing. "The cooperative, interdisciplinary effort to develop and advance our understanding of life using computational approaches not only places high-performance computing center stage, but also provides stimulating impulses for the future development of this field."The post The Algorithms of Life – Scientific Computing for Systems Biology appeared first on insideHPC.